[PATCH] Move valid_dma_direction() from x86_64 to generic code

As suggested by Muli Ben-Yehuda this function is moved to generic code as
may be useful for all archs.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 635690cf3e3d..ff203c465fed 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ enum dma_data_direction {
 #define DMA_28BIT_MASK  0x000000000fffffffULL
 #define DMA_24BIT_MASK  0x0000000000ffffffULL
 
+static inline int valid_dma_direction(int dma_direction)
+{
+        return ((dma_direction == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL) ||
+                (dma_direction == DMA_TO_DEVICE) ||
+                (dma_direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE));
+}
+
 #include <asm/dma-mapping.h>
 
 /* Backwards compat, remove in 2.7.x */